Book Review: Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility,Deepens the Racial Divide,and Threatens Our Future

Baradaran Mehrsa . 2017. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

Brooks Jeneve Ruth . 2014. “Exploring Home Ownership, Residential Segregation, and the Growing Racial Wealth Gap.” Assignment published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. Retrieved July 23, 2018 (http://trails.asanet.org/Pages/Resource.aspx?ResourceID=12688).

Chetty Raj Hendren Nathaniel Jones Maggie R. Porter Sonya R . 2018. “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective.” Retrieved October 24, 2018 (https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/race/).

Desmond Matthew . 2016. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown.

Desmond Matthew. 2017. “How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality.” New York Times Magazine, May 9, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2018 (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/magazine/how-homeownership-became-the-engine-of-american-inequality.html).

Ehrenreich Barbara . 1989. Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. New York: HarperCollins.

Green Matthew . 2018. Review of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Teaching Sociology 46(3):274–87.

Linkon Sherry Lee Russo John . 2016. “Twenty Years of Working-class Studies: Tensions, Values, and Core Questions.” Journal of Working-class Studies 1(1):4–13. Retrieved July 23, 2018 (https://workingclassstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/jwcs-vol-1-issue-1-december-2016-linkon-russo.pdf).

Vox [Producer]. 2018. “The Racial Wealth Gap.” Streaming video episode. Explained. Retrieved July 23, 2018 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80216752).